Plan for change Archives - Modern Workspace Pro

Microsoft 365 admin center: Allow usage for custom apps to show in the Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams [MC1058267]

Message ID: MC1058267 In the Microsoft 365 admin center, we will soon introduce a new organizational setting called App usage for custom apps to allow enterprise app developers to view and use app analytics for company apps in the Developer…

Mike Rosoft 19 April 2025Admin impact, New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

Classic Microsoft Teams: The option to open files in Teams will retire [MC1058266]

Message ID: MC1058266 We will retire the option to open a file in classic Microsoft Teams starting April 15, 2025, and ending April 30, 2025. Instead, we recommend opening the file in the appropriate app (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, or…

Mike Rosoft 19 April 2025Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: We will retire SMS invitations from Teams to external partners [MC1057714]

Message ID: MC1057714 Effective May 17, 2025, we will retire the option for users to invite external partners to Microsoft Teams by sending an SMS to their phone number to join Teams and continue the conversation. We are retiring this…

Mike Rosoft 18 April 2025Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: Use OS-level animation settings instead of Teams-level animation settings [MC1056991]

Message ID: MC1056991 We have removed the Animation setting in Microsoft Teams. Instead, users can configure animations at the operating system (OS) level. If users disable animations in Microsoft Windows or macOS, Teams will honor that preference. This means users…

Mike Rosoft 17 April 2025Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

Microsoft 365 suite

Support for Office 2016, Office 2019, and additional apps will end on October 14, 2025 [MC1056260]

Message ID: MC1056260 As previously communicated, support for Office 2016 and Office 2019 will end on October 14, 2025. After that date, no further updates, security fixes, or technical support will be available for these versions of Office. While the…

Mike Rosoft 16 April 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams admin center: Improvements to controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot [MC1055552]

Message ID: MC1055552 Coming soon: Improvements to the controls for Microsoft 365 Copilot and transcripts in the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC). This rollout aims to reduce complexity and prevent conflicting states for those controls, to help provide a smoother…

Mike Rosoft 15 April 2025Admin impact, Feature update, Plan for change, User impact1

SharePoint Online

Microsoft SharePoint Online: We will remove retired DISCO and WSDL web pages [MC1055555]

Message ID: MC1055555 ASP.NET DISCO and WSDL pages were the web service APIs for customers who wanted to create a proxy for their web services. The retirement of ASP.NET web services was announced in 2013 and should not be used.…

Mike Rosoft 15 April 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impact1

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams: The “Code snippets” feature for chats and channels will retire [MC1055554]

Message ID: MC1055554 We will retire the code snippets feature for chats and channels from Microsoft Teams starting May 30, 2025 and ending June 16, 2025. We made this decision to streamline our development efforts and enhance the overall user…

Mike Rosoft 15 April 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft Purview | Retiring Classic Content Search, Classic eDiscovery (Standard) Cases, Export PowerShell Parameters [MC1055528]

Message ID: MC1055528 We will be retiring the following features/ experiences from Microsoft Purview portal starting May 26, 2025. We recommend transitioning to the alternatives outlined below. 1. Content search in the classic eDiscovery section will be replaced by “Content…

Mike Rosoft 15 April 2025Admin impact, Plan for change, Retirement, User impactNo Comments

Microsoft 365 apps

Microsoft 365 apps: We will prompt users to back up their files in Microsoft OneDrive (new info) [MC1053121]

Message ID: MC1053121 This message replaces MC1024398 (Updated) Microsoft 365 apps: We will prompt users to back up their files in Microsoft OneDrive (published March 2025, updated March 2025) and includes additional details. Please refer to this new post going…

Mike Rosoft 11 April 2025New feature, Plan for change, User impactNo Comments